Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A social meeting of friends and neighbors at the house of a farmer to assist him in stripping the husks or shucks from his Indian corn; a husking-bee (which see). Also
corn-shucking .
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Examples
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Steadfast, uncomplicated in their allegiances, they were foursquare on the side of the American experience as it revealed itself in corn-husking competitions and Fourth of July parades and Thanksgiving preparations.
A Woman’s Place 2008
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Steadfast, uncomplicated in their allegiances, they were foursquare on the side of the American experience as it revealed itself in corn-husking competitions and Fourth of July parades and Thanksgiving preparations.
A Woman’s Place 2008
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Steadfast, uncomplicated in their allegiances, they were foursquare on the side of the American experience as it revealed itself in corn-husking competitions and Fourth of July parades and Thanksgiving preparations.
A Woman’s Place 2008
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Steadfast, uncomplicated in their allegiances, they were foursquare on the side of the American experience as it revealed itself in corn-husking competitions and Fourth of July parades and Thanksgiving preparations.
A Woman’s Place 2008
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At the corn-husking frolic that afternoon, Ida brushed off the remark made by Preacher Yoder's wife, Eunice, that Sadie had missed the next-to-last baptismal class.
Covenant Lewis, Beverly 2002
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The only reason he had for refusing was that corn-husking was not yet over and his son Hiram was needed for the work.
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I knew the other recruits wished to stay till after corn-husking, and besides, felt that nothing would be done to me when I came back to my regiment with 30 stalwart lads.
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The corn-husking begins at eight, and we are to call for Jason Brown and Lucy before we start.
Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People Constance D'Arcy Mackay
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No man ever grew up in the agricultural regions of the West, where a house-raising, or even a corn-husking, is matter of common interest and helpfulness, with any other feeling than that of broad-minded, generous independence.
Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail Harry A. Lewis
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Now the laws of "corn-husking frolics" ordain, that for each red ear that a youth finds, he is entitled to exact a kiss from his partner.
A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America
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